He slots in well to a station that is becoming notable for two things: the punchiness of its editorial proposition, and its ability to unsettle the BBC because of its startling growth in audience. Current Best; Nick Abbot and Nick Ferrari. They're not memorable, not promoted across other shows and although I can just remember it's someone called Penny who does drivetime, I can't even think of the person who presents before her. I enjoy listening too all of them at some stage. This market overview is based on the first three waves of the Tracking Panel, comparing listening through April, May and June with pre-lockdown.

Best Nick Ferrari, Ian Dale and Steve Allen. Roger Mosey is the Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge. “I’m not a regular listener but the times that I have, I’ve never heard a woman calling in,” says Jon Snow. That’s particularly the case on 5 Live, where the figures are heading downwards. All figures quoted include listening across all platforms, including online. im the same.. since they moved the shows around i dont listen as much as i used to. Steve Allen

Well I'm no Peter Snow but looking at their latest listening figures for London stations they have dropped from 3.4% to 2%.

Agreed there, I notice you picked presenters from the former Talk Radio UK line up from their Halcyon days! As for the afternoon slots, these really let LBC down. They all have there unique blend of engaging with listeners.

LBC’s audience has grown by 188,000 listeners in the past year to more than 2.2m, the commercial talk radio station’s highest ever reach in its 46-year history, new industry figures show. As well as Steve moving, the 3 hours of football (without actually broadcasting any football) on a saturday afternoons is a total turn-off for me.

If you happened to tune in only at a particular time each day, you would hardly be getting a balanced picture – and LBC has exploited to its full the idea of “due impartiality”, which allows broadcasters to aim for impartiality across the totality of their output rather than within a single edition of a programme. ", Use the LBC app to listen to Live radio for LBC & LBC News, 'Your wife loves you, not the job you had' - James, Caller tells LBC she had dream job offer withdrawn due to, Trump suppressing black votes: Krishnan Guru-Murthy, James O'Brien dedicates his programme to this extremely, James O'Brien's lighthearted debate with caller over the, James O'Brien questions: "Did universities allow students, James O'Brien Rails At "Throbbers" And "Fraudsters" Still, James Perfectly Responds To Caller Who Cites “Political, James O'Brien's Emotional Response To Manchester Attack, Student condemns universities for 'inhumane' lockdown on, Jeremy Hunt: Testing will help avoid second national, 'Will you shut up man?' The LBC presenter won the gong after a brilliant year, with expert judges choosing him ahead of three rivals from the BBC.

You can tell him and Clegg respect each other. Best - Nick Abbot, Steve Allen and Duncan Barkes. Registered in England.

“Surprised” is one of the milder adjectives used by an executive when asked to assess how LBC can broadcast a regular show by an elected politician like Farage within the Ofcom impartiality framework. Not 100% sure all the people are in the right places (Steve Allen is more of a lunchtime/afternoon presenter) but on the whole something I would regularly listen to if I was in London or had $KY. But turn from BBC television to commercial radio and we find that Nigel Farage has his own daily show on LBC radio, the station that is becoming one of Britain’s media success stories. With Face-to-Face recruitment being suspended at the end of March, RAJAR introduced a Tracking Panel to evaluate radio listening during our time in Lockdown.

Current favourite - Nick Abbot and Ian Collins. Among BBC producers, there are those who find LBC’s interpretation of impartiality more attractive than “this person says yes, this person says no”. I listened to the old LBC every afternoon when Steve Allen and Mike Dickin were on. I dont fit in as an average listener as I listen to the Drivetime shows and to some of the Friday to Sunday shows. Listening in Lockdown. LBC has 14 cameras in its studios in Leicester Square, and branding that’s impossible to miss. He even forced the government into an embarrassing U-turn last year, when he compared Home Secretary Amber Rudd's party conference speech to a passage from Mein Kampf. But we need to make sure this doesn’t become the thin end of the wedge for an Americanisation of our broadcast media in which opinion drives out news. Brexit has obviously been a major topic of conversation in the last year on James's show and few calls were as memorable as when Ashley in Pinner phoned up. That clip was viewed by over 4million people. Sorry if that seems off but that's how it comes across to me. Elsewhere, the BBC’s rising star Emma Barnett has achieved similar results on 5 Live and on Woman’s Hour with Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn respectively. I'm a fan of LBC.